Black Mirror Sucks

There’s a really recent episode of Black Mirror where the plot is that a rich white lady completely loses her shit and goes crazy, which hurts her social media score, which causes her to lose her shit even more, which ruins her life because in the future, your social media score determines your access to everything.

But all of her experiences with being unpopular are just experiences that regular poor people have, all the time, today - the rental company gave her a bad car! Nobody listened to her when she complained at the airport! The justice system didn’t treat her fairly!

And one day of being treated this way drove this poor woman completely insane.

People really liked this episode. Such effective horror writing! Imagine if the world was actually like this?

And, like… damn, the world is really like this, it’s just that the currency is “money” rather than “popularity”, as if that is any fairer.